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'Gareth Jenkins’ work reads like rituals or incantations, corrupted by the manufactured nature of our modern world while constantly seeking to resist that corruption. Historicity, environmental awareness, culture and its wars: these themes and their constant transmutation dominate and destabilise the voices in his poems. In between, the unreliability of language, an overarching self-awareness of privilege and the uncertainty of human relations make the book both alien and deeply personal. His is a project intent on an honest, heartfelt grandeur of connection, all the while haunted by the fear that such human connection is already doomed to a shallow etching of what it might be. Recipes for the Disaster is at once bleak, mystical and strangely life-affirming; an exploration of mysteries, an excavation of hidden failures, an exhortation to be better than we have been.' (Publication summary)
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Joel Ephraims Reviews Recipes for the Disaster by Gareth Sion Jenkins
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , September 2020;
— Review of Recipes for the Disaster 2019 selected work poetry -
Sally Evans Reviews Recipes for the Disaster
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Rabbit , June no. 30 2020; (p. 242)
— Review of Recipes for the Disaster 2019 selected work poetry
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Sally Evans Reviews Recipes for the Disaster
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Rabbit , June no. 30 2020; (p. 242)
— Review of Recipes for the Disaster 2019 selected work poetry -
Joel Ephraims Reviews Recipes for the Disaster by Gareth Sion Jenkins
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , September 2020;
— Review of Recipes for the Disaster 2019 selected work poetry
Awards
- 2020 shortlisted ASAL Awards — Mary Gilmore Award for a First Book of Poetry
- 2019 joint winner Anne Elder Award
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